I have my "self employed" office phone and a personal phone. Both have the same iCloud ID. Until now I was able to keep the "favorites" calling list separate. But with upgrading to iOS 26, the favs from my office show up on my personal phone and vice versa. Is there any way to turn this "feature" off?
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Original Title: iOS 26 Favs Showing on 2 phones
iPhone 13 Pro Max, iOS 26
I spoke with Apple support. this is intended to be working this way. Part of the os26 features to bring the phone to the mac, and sync the favorites in the process.
This is all extremely unuseful! I will not be separating IDs so I suppose my recourse is a different phone manufacturer! It worked phone before the forced upgrade to 26. Why can't Apple FIX WHAT IS BROKEN before they introduce useless features?!
Same Problem.
I use two iPhones—one personal and one for work, each with its own separate contact lists, naturally.
iCloud has always treated them as distinct devices with different backups and so on. It makes no sense to allow two iPhones on the same iCloud account if they can't be kept separate. Why would I want everything to sync between them?
If they want to launch a sync feature, that's fine, but it needs to be configurable. Users should be able to toggle it on for each device if they wish. Otherwise, they should just assume that a single account can only have one iPhone, because the current behavior merges everything anyway.
I am truly disappointed.
Having the exact same issue. I was pleased with the iOS 26 update until I updated my second phone and it forced the favorites merger. Crazy how 1 thing that is so impactful can cause me to consider switching phones altogether!
WR4444 wrote:
unfortunately, it does not work. I turned-off icloud for "calls & facetime" but favorate is still syncing on both devices (personal & work). Very frustrating
Even if you use iCloud (only) for personal phone, and MS Outlook account (only) for business phone contacts?
It would be nice to have this a user configurable option.
Then it is bad engineering!
Yes Iam happy to learn
Yeah, that’s why it never did this until iOS 26…
Tell me another one.
I am having the same issue with the favorites. It worked with IOS 18 and now under IOS 26 it doesn't. So far, there is no resolution. Since Apple messed it up, maybe a third party app can fix it.
unfortunately, it does not work. I turned-off icloud for "calls & facetime" but favorate is still syncing on both devices (personal & work). Very frustrating
iOS 26 syncing Favorites across devices with same iCloud ID
